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James River Chiefdoms - The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake (Hardcover, New)
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James River Chiefdoms - The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake (Hardcover, New)
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James River Chiefdoms explores puzzling discrepancies between the
ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and
Monacan societies Jamestown colonists met in 1607. The colonists
described the coastal Powhatans and the Monacans of the James River
interior in terms that evoke the anthropological notion of a
chiefdom, but the Chesapeake region's archaeological record lacks
elements typically associated with complex polities. In an effort
to account for these apparent incongruities, Martin D. Gallivan
synthesizes ethnohistoric accounts with the archaeology of
thirty-five Native settlements dating from A.D. 1-1610 to identify
and illuminate social changes largely undetected by previous
research. A comparative, quantitative analysis of residential
archaeology in the James River Valley highlights a rearrangement of
daily practices within Native villages between 1200 and 1500. James
River villagers reorganized their domestic production, settlements,
and regional interactions to create new funds of power within
social settings perched between communally oriented cultural
practices and exclusionary political strategies. During the
early-seventeenth-century colonial encounter, Native leaders were
thus positioned to employ strategies that, for a time, eclipsed
communal decision-making structures in the Chesapeake. James River
Chiefdoms presents a novel perspective on an important chapter in
the history of Native peoples in eastern North America and on early
colonial America. It offers an innovative interpretive approach to
Native American culture history and the emergence of hierarchical
political organizations in the Americas. Martin D. Gallivan is an
associate professor of anthropology at the College of William and
Mary.
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